Re: How can I re-bootstrap pkgsrc?

[raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost]

On Saturday 05 January 2008 11:58:43 Roland Illig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using pkgsrc as an unprivileged user, and I want to update pkg_*
> and bmake to the current versions. So I ran bootstrap/bootstrap, but it
> failed:
>
> $ bootstrap/bootstrap --unprivileged --prefix=/usr/pkg/2007Q2
> ...
> ===> Installing for bootstrap-mk-files-20071104
> ERROR: bootstrap-mk-files-20070810 is already installed - perhaps an
> older version
> ...
>
> How can I update the pkgsrc "base" packages?
>
> Roland


Maybe

cd /
mv /usr/pkg/2007Q2 /usr/pkg/2007Q2.orig
/usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap/bootstrap --unprivileged --prefix=/usr/pkg/2007Q2
tar -cvf /tmp/bootstrap.tar /usr/pkg/2007Q2
rm -rf /usr/pkg/2007Q2
mv /usr/pkg/2007Q2.orig /usr/pkg2007Q2
tar -xvpf /tmp/bootstrap.tar